Mental Health Hospital Chaplain

Interchurch Council for Hospital Chaplaincy (Part Time 0.5FTE)

Mental Health Hospital Chaplain (Part Time 0.5FTE)

Hospital Chaplaincy Aotearoa

Hillmorton Hospital, Health New Zealand -Te Whatu Ora, Waitaha Canterbury

Mental Health Chaplain 0.5FTE

Unique opportunity to make a real difference in the provision of spiritual heath care for individuals, families, whanau in our care. 

• Professional Development provided.
• Part Time position.
• Hillmorton Hospital based.

Hillmorton Hospital 

Your time will be spent at Hillmorton Hospital, Christchurch.  Hillmorton Hospital is the major provider of specialist mental health services in Waitaha Canterbury. It offers a wide range of mental inpatients services which include acute adult, forensic, alcohol and drug detoxification, psychiatric services for adults with intellectual disability, assessment, treatment and rehabilitation, child and adolescent and family, eating disorders, mothers and babies.

You would be part of a team of Mental Health Chaplains at Hillmorton.

Hospital Chaplaincy Aotearoa

Hospital Chaplaincy Aotearoa Is a collaboration of a broad range of churches, that is committed to providing Christian Chaplains within Aotearoa New Zealand’s healthcare environment. 

As Chaplain you will be part of multidisciplinary healthcare teams, working with other Chaplains across the hospital providing holistic care to all.  You will gain experience and provide spiritual care to patients from every culture, life stage, denomination, faith-orientation, belief, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation.

Key responsibility areas:

• Delivering spiritual healthcare to patients suffering ill health or accident, to their whānau, and to staff within a public hospital.
• Responding to crisis calls from hospital staff, patients and whānau.
• Regularly, and on request, visiting wards and units to provide spiritual care and attend appropriate meetings within the hospital as guided by your team and Regional Manager.
• Conducting spiritual and religious services and rituals in the hospital.
• Collaborating in multi-disciplinary meetings, therapeutic groups and other processes as appropriate to role.
• Teaming up and working positively as a unified Chaplaincy team in each Hospital.
• Supporting colleagues within regional chaplaincy teams and across the Motu.

With your empathy and compassion, excellent listening and pastoral skills, and a good level of religious, spiritual, and theological understanding, this is an exciting and rewarding time to join our team. Your knowledge and experience in a ministry of pastoral care in a health or in faith community leadership will be key to your success. 

We recognise and celebrate the uniqueness of individuals, and that of the collective talent in our whānau.  All applications must be submitted through the seek website to ensure transparency.

Please combine the CV and Cover Letter into one pdf and submit this under CV.  And submit the completed Application Form under Cover Letter. N.B. Applications received via email will not be considered.

Please submit the following three items:

• CV
• Cover Letter and
• Completed Application Form 

Please Find The Job Description Here (copy and paste the link into a browser):

https://mcusercontent.com/e90c907b9501e0cde3966a24d/files/c24151b6-1d6a-b819-203a-b9b5a9d4ccf5/Hospital_Chaplain_Mental_Health_Hillmorton_JD_2025.pdf

Please Find The Application Form Here (Copy and paste the link into a browser 

https://mcusercontent.com/e90c907b9501e0cde3966a24d/files/ddb23d8b-ce95-b980-98cc-afc8803835bb/Application_Form_Chaplain_Hillmorton_25.docx

Closing Date 4pm,  Monday 19 May 2025

28/04/2025

20/05/2025